Find and merge similar thread tags

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Often members will post misspelled tags. For medium to large sites its not possible to go through the tag database and manage one by one. I used to try sanitize a tag database, but its a monks task which literally takes up full workweeks without even seeing much difference.

What would be really useful is a way to find similar tags and to merge these into the correct tag.
Luckily there is an algorithm to identify similar words: the Levenshtein distance. Elastic Search supports this.
What would be needed is: